| Date |
Leader |
Topic |
Handouts |
| September 15 |
Tom Davis |
Counting and Pascal’s Triangle |
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| September 22 |
David Auckly |
Triangles take flight |
pdf |
| September 29 |
Tatiana Shubin |
Chromatic Numbers and More |
doc |
| October 06 |
Meets at Stanford: Terence Tao |
The Cosmic Distance Ladder |
pdf |
| October 14 |
BAMA at SCU: Michael Starbird |
Geometric Gems |
pdf (back), pdf (front) |
| October 20 |
Joshua Zucker |
Breaking Integer Sticks |
|
| October 27 |
David Farmer |
The Divisor Function |
|
| November 03 |
Bill Gosper |
Pictures Worth Minus One Thousand Words |
notes, Click Algebra Lesson at the now bogus Google page |
| November 10 |
BAMA at SJSU: Francis Su |
Voting in Agreeable Societies |
pdf (front), pdf (back) |
| November 17 |
Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin, and guests |
A Russian-Style Math Circle |
hw, hw sol, class, class sol |
| November 24 |
Break |
Thanksgiving Break |
|
| December 01 |
Yul Inn |
Using Induction and Parity to Solve Graph Problems |
|
| December 08 |
Simon Rubinstein-Salzed |
Quadratic Reciprocity |
notes |
| December 15 |
BAMA at SCU: Roger Nelsen |
Math Icons: An Exploration of Images |
pdf (front and back) |
| December 22 |
Break |
Winter break |
|
| December 29 |
Break |
Winter break |
|
| January 05 |
Dan Goldston |
Adding up Infinite Sums and Multiplying Infinite Products |
|
| January 12 |
Joshua Zucker |
Circle of Differences |
|
| January 19 |
BAMA at SJSU: Kevin S. McCurley |
The Mathematics of Inequality |
pdf |
| January 26 |
Tatiana Shubin |
Geometric Combinatorics: Putnam Exam and Beyond |
pdf |
| February 02 |
Joshua Zucker |
Arithmetic in Non-Base Representations |
|
| February 09 |
Meets at Stanford: Shing-Tung Yau |
The Shape of Inner Space. String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe ‘ s Hidden Dimensions |
pdf |
| February 16 |
Paul Zeitz |
BAMO Prep |
|
| February 22 |
BAMA at SJSU: BAMO |
BAMO |
|
| February 23 |
BAMA at SCU: Ivars Peterson |
The Jungles of Randomness |
pdf (back and front) |
| March 02 |
Tom Davis and/or Tatiana Shubin |
BAMO Aftermath |
|
| March 09 |
Brian Conrey |
Gaussian Integers |
|
| March 16 |
BAMA at SJSU: Jim Tanton |
Partitions, Weird Languages, Dots and Dashes, and a few more of my Favourite Mathematical Things |
pdf (front and back) |
| March 23 |
Tom Davis |
Inversion in a Circle |
pdf |
| March 30 |
Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin and guests |
A Russian-style math circle |
hw, Problems-and-soluntions |
| April 06 |
Lilia Tsalenko |
Mathematical Induction |
Math Induction problems |
| April 13 |
Steve Blasberg |
Review of the 2011 AIME |
Pression from last week (pdf) |
| April 20 |
Dan Goldston |
Multiplicative Functions |
Pression problems from 4/13 (pdf), Multiplicative Functions |
| April 20 |
Meets at Stanford: Manjul Bhargava |
Linguistics, Poetry, and Mathematics |
pdf |
| April 27 |
Zvezdelina Stankova |
Plane Geometry |
Plane Geometry problems (pdf), Presession problems from 4/20 (pdf) |
| May 04 |
David Farmer |
Square-Root Cancellation |
Presession problems from 4/27 |
| May 11 |
TBD |
Pizza and Puzzle Party |
Presession problems from May 11, Pression problems from May 4 |
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